Singapore legislation
Clause 38
Clause 38
Miscellaneous amendments
The Dentists Act is amended ––
by deleting the words “Dental Council” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “Singapore Dental Council”:Long title, sections 2 (definition of “President”) and 3(1) and the section heading;
by inserting, immediately after the word “dentists” in the following provisions, the words “and oral health therapists”:Long title and section 62(2)(b);
by deleting the words “DENTAL COUNCIL” in the heading to Part II and substituting the words “SINGAPORE DENTAL COUNCIL”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “a dentist” in the following provisions, the words “or an oral health therapist”:Sections 4(a), 25(1), 27(a), 29(1) and 49(1)(b) and (c) and (7);
by inserting, immediately after the words “registered dentists” in the following provisions, the words “and registered oral health therapists”:Sections 4(b), (d) and (e) and 62(2)(f);
by inserting, immediately after the words “registered dentist” wherever they appear in the following provisions, the words “or registered oral health therapist”:Sections 7(b), 24(1), (2) and (4) and the section heading and 49(1), (2) and (5);
by deleting the word “register” wherever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “appropriate register”:Sections 17(8), 19, 20(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d) and the section heading, 21 (section heading), 27(b), 49(1)(d) and (7), 53(2) and the section heading and 62(2)(c) and (g); and
by deleting the word “register” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the words “Register of Dentists”:Sections 31(1), (2) and (3) and 61(b).